SAITAMA, Japan – It took Hyun Gyu Lim a little while to get truly started, but when he finally did things were over in a hurry.

A bloodied-up Lim, a 3-to-1 favorite with a noticeable size advantage, knocked out Marcelo Guimaraes with a jumping knee deep into the second round to pick up a win in his UFC debut.

The welterweight bout opened up the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC on FUEL TV 8 event at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. It streamed on Facebook ahead of a main card on FUEL TV.

Guimaraes quickly shot for a takedown, but it wasn’t there. Another one was off the mark moments later. Guimaraes tried to establish some kicks, but it was Lim using his long reach advantage early to pepper in jabs. When a pair of Guimaraes takedown attempts missed, Lim just missed with a dangerous right hand.

But Guimaraes wasn’t afraid to stand in tight with the Korean and cracked him with a right hand of his own. After another missed takedown, Guimaraes again popped off a right hand. With 20 seconds left, Guimaraes finally got the fight to the canvas by taking advantage of a Lim flying knee. But he wasn’t able to do anything with it before the horn.

Guimaraes got off a good body kick early in the second and appeared to have some confidence. Lim swung wildly, and Guimaraes wasn’t afraid to answer back. He still was far off on clean takedowns, which opened him up for trouble from Lim on the feet. But midway through the round, with Lim’s nose bloodied up, Guimaraes landed his first truly clean takedown of the fight and went to work out of Lim’s guard.

Lim worked back to his feet for the last 100 seconds of the round, and he would wind up being glad he did. As Lim moved in, Guimaraes ducked his head and wound up leaning right into a big Lim left knee. Guimaraes dropped to the canvas, and one big right hand fro Lim was inconsequential as referee Thomas Fan moved in to stop it.

“I don’t really know what to say. I’m so happy right now,” Lim said through his interpreter. “From the beginning of the second round, he kept jabbing and moving to the right side, so I watched that and timed it right.”

Lim (11-3-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) won for the sixth straight time and gets a win in his UFC debut. After a split-decision win over Daniel Stittgen in his UFC debut this past July, Guimaraes (8-1-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) now falls to 1-1 in the promotion and suffers the first loss of his career.

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